Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 24
He was condemned to death for making the white man stronger and greater than the red man.
What happens: condemn, make · To what, where: Ietan, white man
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 condemned | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 condemned | aux:pass |
| 3 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 condemned | obl |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 making | mark |
| 7 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 condemned | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 making | obj |
| 11 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 making | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 greater | cc |
| 13 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 stronger | conj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 greater | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 condemned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condemn | past · passive | Ietan | to death | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | the white man | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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